So it's the Chinese year of the Pig. I am a pig and proud to admit it. Some of my Chinese friends told me that if it is *your* year you are supposed to wear red clothes for the first 14 days of the new year to bring you luck. I was quite diligent about this, even if it was only red underwear.

Pigs in Chinese culture are seen as particularly lucky. They are prized animals and get to lay around all day while other people feed them, hence their rep for being lucky. Good things come to them without them having to work for it.

How has this year been treating me so far. Excellent. Curiously, everyone keeps giving me consumeables - wine, cookies, chocolates...

Now I'm wondering, is this because it's the year of the pig and I'm a pig?

or

Am I getting all this stuff because I complain about being hungry all the time from my training program?

or

Are they fattening me up to eat me later?